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Episode: The Opioid Epidemic: What We Should, and Can, Do About It w/ Dr Keith Humphreys
Description: The Opioid epidemic is still raging through communities even as other events dominate the news headlines. But with over 90K dead from overdoses in 2020, there is no end in sight to the crisis. We turn to Dr. Keith Humphreys who has been an addiction expert for many years on his recent testimony before a US Senate committee on the opioid crisis, how the new synthetic drugs like Fentanyl are a whole new level of deadly challenge, why "it's just addicts getting what they deserve" fails not only on a human level but in cost to communities as well. We...